Monthly Archives: August 2016

Older kids might know at least the names of historic revolutionaries like France’s Maximillien Robespierre and Argentina’s Che Guevara, but have they ever heard of Cuba’s Celia Sanchez? Or Mexico’s Petra Herrera? Or Germany’s Sophie Scholl? Probably not, but when it came to revolution, these members of the fair sex were just as ardent, and […]

“History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren’t there.” – George Santayana Even when people are there, they tend to view things differently. Teach kids to compare accounts and not just accept that something happened a certain way because someone said it did. Look for the reasoning […]

“History never looks like history when you are living through it.” – John W. Gardner Seventy-four years ago today, my parents got married in a little English village, in the midst of WW II. For them, and my oldest brother (born the following year), WW II wasn’t history, just something that happened in their lives. […]

August’s history based or bygone era TV and/or movie suggestions: The Count Of Monte Cristo (1975) (19th Century France) The Devil At Four O’Clock (1961) (Mid-20th Century) The Horse With The Flying Tail (Disney, 1960) (Mid-20th-Century America)